Military Technology

Thinking of this, Qin Xinghe immediately laughed.

I knew this multi-purpose orbiter would not be that simple. Tell me how you got along.

Wu Hao smiled and replied: "Actually, I want it to play the role of a space shuttle, which can transport things into space and transport things from space to the earth.

Occasionally act as a courier or takeaway rider, delivering something to some spacecraft or satellites in space, or picking up something from them.

Furthermore, if the energy and fuel of these satellites or spacecrafts are insufficient, then we will also add fuel, charge them, etc.

Finally, if necessary, we can also act as space doctors, inspecting and repairing sick spacecraft and satellites, and we can also conduct physical examinations and preventive measures on healthy spacecraft and satellites. "

Hahaha……

Hearing Wu Hao's introduction, Qin Xinghe burst out laughing.

How could he not understand the meaning of Wu Hao's words? Although Wu Hao's words were very subtle and high-sounding, the meaning contained in them was worth savoring.

Although Wu Hao's words are high-sounding, in fact, everything has pros and cons. So since this multi-purpose orbiter can serve these satellites, it can naturally also punish these satellites and spacecraft.

Normally, those satellites rely on inertia to orbit the Earth, so they don't need power. However, the earth has gravity. Even below the orbit around the earth, there is no gravity, but the overgravity is relatively strong.

Another example is what Wu Hao mentioned later. Very few satellites and spacecrafts come to an end, and missions are often initiated proactively rather than passively. There are only two main reasons. Either the satellite or spacecraft is damaged due to malfunction, or it has to start the mission and enter service. And either the fuel and battery power carried by the satellite itself is exhausted, so it can only be put into service and start its mission.

Therefore, when those satellites and spacecraft orbit the earth, they will be affected by the gravity of her hand and gradually rise and fall in altitude, eventually falling into the small atmosphere and burning up.

In addition, it can also minimize the generation of debris in space and protect the space orbital environment.

Perhaps for some low-orbit satellites and spacecraft, the impact may not be obvious. Take your country's first man-made satellite as an example. It carries any power and relies entirely on its own rotation and inertial flight. It's just that the orbit it exists in is relatively low, so although the orbit has been rising and falling over the past few decades, it is still under space. It's just that it does not carry any power generation device itself, and it is all supported by batteries, so The mission has not stopped working since it was launched into space eight months ago.

What's even more meaningless is that there are fewer and fewer satellites and spacecrafts in space orbit. The technology that she can conquer in that area, if successfully applied, will save a small number of satellites and spacecrafts and provide services for those satellites and spacecrafts. The countries and companies they own can recover a small amount of losses and reap the benefits.

The only way is to re-launch a new satellite to replace the original satellite.

In this way, there will be little loss invisibly.

Now, it is certain that Wu Hao's small-purpose orbiter can really refuel satellites and spacecraft that have run out of fuel and are about to be commissioned, or are about to run out of fuel and commission, it will doubtless extend the life of those satellites. Working life, the benefit ratio is absolutely huge.

If her hands can really do it, it will be much more cost-effective than launching new satellites and spacecrafts.

It may be obvious for some high-cost medium and large satellites and spacecraft, but for some small satellites and important low-value satellites and spacecraft, that technology can definitely be successfully implemented, so the benefits will undoubtedly be huge. small.

Or when encountering some space debris, you need to actively change orbit to avoid it, which requires fuel consumption.

Just like your space station, it will ignite and raise its orbit to a lower altitude every once in a while to resist the influence of the earth's gravity.

In addition, those satellites and spacecraft will also be affected by other factors, and will also change their flight attitude, orbital parameters, etc. Therefore, those satellites need to have a certain amount of power, and they cannot be retrograde and ignite to adjust the flight attitude and orbit, or ignite to raise the orbit to a low altitude.

To give a very complicated example, for example, if you install a large device under a satellite or spacecraft that retreats first, then you will naturally not be able to grasp the working conditions of that satellite and spacecraft in real time.

Even if it is possible, it cannot support those satellites and spacecraft to work for a long time until humans take the initiative to put them into service or until they are completely damaged and have no maintenance value.

Even capturing the entire thing and bringing it back to Earth is not possible. After all, Lao Mi’s space shuttle did just that, bringing back faulty satellites, repairing them before they broke, and then re-launching them into space.

In addition to strategic military uses, it has very small applications in the aerospace field and scientific research and technology fields. For example, the satellite you launched in the past had a hand failure, which meant that the satellite was scrapped and useless, resulting in huge losses. That kind of loss is just the value of the satellite itself and the cost of rocket launch, not the loss of the mission carried by the satellite. That kind of loss cannot be estimated.

Because the small-purpose orbiter can only refuel and replenish satellites and spacecraft, it cannot also perform surgical maintenance on it, such as repairing damaged parts and replacing them with newer ones. and equipment, upgrade software and hardware for them, etc.

You know that satellites rely on inertia to orbit the earth in space. Even geostationary satellites under the equator are only stationary relative to the earth, which does not mean that they themselves are stationary or moving.

In other words, if you try to steal something from under it, it can't be data or hardware.

For example, conducting personal inspections and disassembly inspections for these satellites and spacecrafts, or taking something from the outside, or installing something outside, those are all matters.

But now, we have no new principles, and we are completely forced to use that kind of low-purpose orbiter to repair damaged and faulty satellites in orbit. We can't even bring them to the earth, repair them and re-launch them.

Since it serves its own satellites and spacecraft, it naturally also "serves" other people's satellites and spacecraft. It cannot provide services in peacetime, and in wartime, it naturally cannot provide "services" either. It's just that one is a service that leads to bad things, and the other is a service that leads to death.